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More than 2.5 million service members have served in Iraq or Afghanistan over the past 12 years of war. A number of terrific memoirs and histories have been written about their efforts in war.
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Here's something I am very excited about: the Revolutions Podcast. Revolutions, which describes itself as "a weekly podcast series examining great political revolutions," is the latest project of a guy n...
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Here is the press release from the committee's website :
Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Vice Chairman Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) today announced the commit...
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We learn from the Washington Post that some of the Al Shabab gunmen laying siege to the Westgate mall in Nairobi, Kenya speak English. One of the 62 victims is a famous Ghanaian poet, Kofi Awoonor.
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In the category of "neat things you stumble upon" I recently came across this web page -- the ORIGINAL, first web page ever made publicly available on the World Wide Web.
For those who don't know the st...
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My Brookings colleague and occasional collaborator John Villasenor wrote in to flag a piece he's co-authored on the important topic of counterfeit electronics.
From John:
National security discussions o...
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I was honored to moderate a panel at Georgetown Law on Constitution Day, entitled "A Constitutional Conversation: The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act in a Digital Era."
The panel, composed of Geor...
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That's the sum and substance of this Washington Post piece, which begins:
A former FBI bomb technician who later worked as a contractor for the Bureau has agreed to plead guilty to disclosing national de...
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Given today’s launch of Just Security (of which I’m one of the co-editors-in-chief), I thought it worth saying a word or two about me and Lawfare, lest anyone get the wrong idea about the new project, or...
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It's been a dark weekend across the globe.
The Westgate mall in Nairobi remains a war zone after al-Shabab militants opened fire on shoppers on Saturday, killing at least 62 and wounding almost 200. Her...
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James A.
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In describing Hatim v. Obama (the D.C. Circuit Guantánamo appeal in which the government filed its opening brief on Friday) as the "counsel access" case, Raff has hit the nail on the head.
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The latest episode of Intelligence² Debates is over the resolution, "The U.S. Drones Program is Fatally Flawed." It's an interesting program, though I have to say that I think the Oxford Union debate thi...
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A historic marker titled "Nuclear Mishap" welcomes visitors to Eureka, North Carolina, population 200. The text reads: "B-52 transporting two nuclear bombs crashed. Jan. 1961. Widespread disaster averted...
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The government has filed its opening, appellant brief in Hatim v. Obama, the "counsel access case" before the D.C. Circuit.
Before describing the brief, a bit of background is in order: this past summer...
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Big week down at Guantanamo. Wells was up to Fort Meade, covering this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 trial.
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At long last we come to argument on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate.
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Walid Bin Attash’s lawyer, Cheryl Bormann, will question the long-testifying witness, Ronald Bechtold.
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The witness: Ronald Bechtold, Pentagon IT Chief. His cross-examiner: J. Connell III. Their subject: You know well by now. AE155 and information technology are under discussion, still, at Guantanamo’s E...